Rushdi Saleh

Rushdi Saleh (18 January 1945-22 October 1978) was a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) member who served as an envoy to Belgium.

Biography
Rushdi Saleh was born on 18 January 1945 in the predominantly-Arab city of al-Tira, Mandatory Palestine (present-day Tira, Israel) to a Sunni Muslim family (99.9% of the population of Tira was Sunni). Saleh's family was evicted from al-Tira during the Israeli War of Independence, and Saleh and his family fled to Nablus in the West Bank, occupied by Transjordan. Saleh grew up with a hatred of Israel, as they forced his family out of their homes. Saleh joined the Palestinian Fedayeen and later joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) of Yasser Arafat. Saleh became one of Arafat's envoys to Europe, and he was posted in Belgium, holding an office in Antwerp, where he delivered messages from Fatah in Palestine to Belgium.

On 22 October 1978, Saleh was killed in a car bombing outside of his apartment in Brussels during Israel's Operation Wrath of God. He was accused of being responsible for letter bombings targeting Israeli diplomats, and his death was revenge for the bombings.